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For 2,618 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Spiderland [Box Set]
Lowest review score: 10 Amazing Grace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,168 out of 2618
  2. Mixed: 430 out of 2618
  3. Negative: 20 out of 2618
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rawar Style
    As a political manifesto, Rawar Style is somewhat vague, yet The Eternals' impulsive, improvising music has anger, zeal and humour in its very DNA. [#245, p.56]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Don't Climb On And Take The Holy Water
    Sadly their rather airless space rock doesn't really lift off beyond a certain Ambient politeness. [#244, p.66]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fulfilled/Complete
    It's carefully constructed music that makes few demands but rewards close attention. [#244, p.69]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rejoicing In The Hands
    Banhart mixes a relaxed bearing and a tense vocal delivery in a fascinating manner. [#245, p.51]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    ONoffON
    The album glows white-hot with fury and energy, familiar yet fresh. [#243, p.66]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    trampin'
    A dull, clunky, unjustifiably smug AOR rock album: no more, no less. [#243, p.71]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Faking The Books
    A streamlined combination of motorik rhythms, electronic textures and tuneful choruses. [#242, p.72]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's All Around You
    Although there are no new dimensions here,... this still feels like musical fresh mint. [#242, p.67]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Misery Is A Butterfly
    A rewarding new departure. [#242, p.72]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Animal Serenade
    Beautifully performed, but otherwise unadventurous. [#243, p.69]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Venice
    There's at once a sense that Venice is weightier and more purposeful than its predecessor. [#243, p.56]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ten
    Ten is forever on the point of falling apart but somehow doesn't. [#241, p.55]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Grown Backwards
    A worthy addition to Byrne's sprawling oeuvre, while never reaching the heights of his greatest work. [#242, p.57]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    High Water (Mark)
    The results are pleasing and anticlimactic at once. [#240, p.57]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ultravisitor
    Ultravisitor feels like another work in progress, another messy, powerful, occasionally remarkable, sometimes infuriating attempt to create a true, detailed, authentically multifaceted musical autobiography. [#241, p.52]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
    An exciting record crawling with new ideas. [#243, p.74]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Now Soon Someday [EP]
    Both totally entertaining and instantly accessible to both avant rap devotees and curious passers-by. [#246, p.66]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
    For the most part it works, weaving a dark atmosphere of foreboding and dread through the songs. [#240, p.68]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Liberation
    If nothing else, these [political] elements give Liberation a darker hue. [#240, p.67]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kila Kila Kila
    More choppy and scattered than its predecessor but equally compelling. [#241, p.61]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fabulous Muscles
    It's exhilarating and rare to hear such bruised raw performances as these. [#242, p.71]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Perpetuum Mobile
    Rather than fetishing these sound sources, Neubaten vacuum-pack the lot inside a hermetic and constricting production that is immensely disturbing. [#241, p.57]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hypnotic Underworld
    It's simultaneously the group's most successful integration of the various strands they've chased over the years and their most ambitious and expansive work to date. [#241, p.50]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Power Out
    There are occasions when vocal inadequacy can be more emotionally fetching than full-throated virtuosity.... This, however, is not one of them. [#239, p.57]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Grey Album
    One of the year's best releases, remix or not. [#241, p.71]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Apropa't
    There is no fake authenticity in this musical exploration, and Herren's musical palette is impressively wide ranging. [#241, p.63]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Margerine Eclipse
    Continues along lines that Stereolab have been laying down since the late 1990s: motorik drumming and a swish of keyboards tarversing a linear landscape, with the emphasis on Sadier's laconic, dewy vocals. [#239, p.65]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heron King Blues
    Evokes the same stark, road weary melancholy as Ry Cooder's score for Paris, Texas, but with a far more extensive sonic toolbox. [#240, p.57]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Maryland Mansions
    It's the wealth of unexpected production touches crammed into its 25 minutes that really bring Maryland Mansions to life. [#240, p.72]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Closer
    Closer works best instrumentally, as a sonic depiction of the mind, as a dark voyage into inner space. [#236, p.64]
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